galootn.
/ɡəˈluːt/, U.S. /ɡəˈlut/ slang.
1. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.)
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > marine > young or awkward
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1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 176 Galloot, a soldier.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. v. 82 Four greater galloots were never picked up.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Geeloot.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Galoot, an awkward soldier..A soubriquet for the young or ‘green’ marine.
2. ‘An awkward or uncouth fellow: often used as a term of good-natured depreciation’ ( Standard Dict.). Originally U.S.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > lout, oaf, booby > [noun]
lubber1362
looby1377
howfing?a1513
slouch?1518
bowberta1522
knuckylbonyarda1529
lob1533
lout1548
patch1549
hoballa1556
lilburnea1556
lobcocka1556
chub1558
hick1565
lourd1579
peasant1581
clown1583
lubbard1586
lumberer1593
lump1597
blooterc1600
boobyc1600
lob-coat1604
hoy1607
bacon-brainsa1635
alcatote1638
oaf1638
kelf1665
brute1670
dowf1722
gawky1724
chuckle1731
chuckle-head1731
John Trott1753
stega1823
lummoxa1825
gawk1837
country jakea1854
guffin1862
galoot1866
stot1877
lobster1896
mutt1900
palooka1920
schlub1950
1866 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward among Fenians (Hotten) 30 Wake, Bessy, wake, My sweet galoot!
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home 22 He could lam any galoot of his inches in America.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. xiii. 205 Until the Golden Butterfly brought him to Limerick City..he was but a poor galoot.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker ix. 137 My dear boy, I may be a galoot about literature, but you'll always be an outsider in business.
1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Aug. 32/4 ‘Who's that galoot 'as lost his 'orse, Sis?’ Bendigo was asking.
1944 A. Clarke Coll. Plays (1963) 223 Big galoots in hobnailed boots!
1946 I. L. Idriess In Crocodile Land xxx. 209 We'll lock this silly galoot up.
1966 New Statesman 8 Apr. 497/3 The galoots who blew up Nelson's Pillar.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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